I think if anyone is expecting a 'cheap' version of this car they are going to be disappointed - the conversion kit price is now known and the bits to make up the Kyosho aspects of the kit cost what they cost, it's not like they can be sourced from Kyosho in their tens of thousands to drive the price down and I'm fairly sure the markup on the spares isn't even that high in the first place to be able to slash the cost of putting them altogether in one box (which also costs a business money to do - nobody's time is free!).
If you want to put this kit together but don't want to buy all new bits then I think it's up to you to see what you can do about making it cheaper by buying second hand donor cars etc, but then if you're thinking "but I don't want the old front end, I want the WC end and I want FS2 SP gunmetal bits etc" then you're asking for a fairly specific thing and as such you're going to have to pay for it.
I'm not knocking the DB1 believe me, I am actually considering how I can make one more affordable to me, but I don't think you can compare it to an all in one kit such as the Losi which is already very reasonably priced - it'd be much fairer to compare it with the Vega and other such premium conversions. The bottom line however is that it's still a very specialised bit of kit and as such will carry a higher price tag than some of the other options out there.
Not trying to get anyones back up here, it's just how I see it, peace!
